Höflichkeitsformeln in Lehrbüchern des deutschen als Fremdsprache

Abstract

In teaching of every foreign language routines and pattern expressions play a very important role, e.g. expressions of kindness. In this paper the author conducts an analysis of 6 handbooks of the German language, trying to define what expressions of kindness, (and their number and form) consider the method according to which a given handbook was designed.